Crimea's de facto heads claim that the share of Turkish products on the peninsula is very insignificant / Photo from indostan.ru
Crimea cuts off cooperation with the Turkish business and refuses to purchase Turkish goods, Crimea's de facto head Sergei Aksyonov told journalists Wednesday after a working meeting with the Russian Minister of Labor and Social Protection Maxim Topilin, according to Russian news agency TASS.
"We unequivocally believe that Crimeans also have to refuse to purchase Turkish food products, goods and so on. I urge Crimeans to refrain from trips to Turkey in general. Not because it is dangerous, but because as of today it is a hostile state towards Russia. Currently we are not ready to cooperate with the Turkish businessmen. I openly say it, and I have no doubt that Crimeans will support us," Aksyonov said, TASS wrote.
Earlier the so-called Crimean Parliament Speaker Vladimir Konstantinov told journalists that Crimea is free to refuse the products imported from Turkey. "There is enough food in Crimea. We have more than enough opportunities to replace food products by the goods from the mainland. The share of the products from Turkey is very insignificant. Therefore, this problem has more to do with Turkey," he said.
Crimea's de facto industrial policies minister Andrey Skrynnik told TASS that there is no food shortage in Crimea.
On November 24, a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 frontline bomber was downed by a Turkish F-16 fighter jet when the Russian aircraft was at an altitude of 6,000 meters one kilometer from Turkey's border. Ankara claims the Russian warplane had violated Turkey's airspace while the Russian Defense Ministry says the Su-24 was flying above Syria.